Chef Supermarket

Beginning in 2014, FullStack began a partnership with Chef (formerly OpsCode) to redevelop Chef’s community site,
Supermarket. The Chef
community site is a destination for the open source community to browse,
download, and share Chef cookbooks.

The existing community site had a vibrant and involved user-base, however it
had started to become outdated, and was missing several key features. Chef
desired to open-source the community site in order to allow contributions to
the site, but the existing codebase contained proprietary libraries and source
code, making open-sourcing it impossible.

Before writing a single line of code, we needed to understand what a successful
community site would look like. From the start, we identified and successfully
met a number of goals with the launch of Supermarket:

Creating a delightful user experience.

Providing an open-source platform for finding and sharing cookbooks

Automating the process of becoming a contributor to Chef’s open source projects

Allowing organizations to setup their own internal cookbook site using the Supermarket platform